Ice-cream cone



Apfil 7, 1925.

DJ GERBER ICE CREAM CONE Filed se'pt. 7. 1923 N To all wiiom it conveniently ,ice Orc-am 1n Patented r. 7, 1925.

THAN SHAPIBO,

IE 'sTTEs 1532,806 PATENT' OFFICE.

IBALTIMOBE, MABYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO MARYLAND BAKING COM- PANY, A CO-PARTNERSEIP COMPOSED O'F JOSEPH SHAPIRO,

AND SAMUEL SHAPIRO, OF IBALTIMORE, MABYILAND.

ISAAC SHAPIRO, NA-

ICE-CREAM CONE.

Application filed .september may concem:

Be it known that I, DAVID (innnan, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful :improvements in Ice-Cream Comes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference be ing had to the aocompanying drawings ferming part of this Specification.

This invention relates to ice cream cofles made of edible material and ada'ptedtobe held in the hand while the the cone is being eaten. The object of the present invention is to provide a cone of this type which will not Wedge or split when acked for shpment in boxes of nested stic s. of cones.

Ice cream cones are usually made of' entire conical shape, but the 'more recent improvements in this arttend to the torch or bouquet shape, iilustrated in. the drawing, the invention, however, being not limited in any -way to the general shape of the cone shown.

'ether in Sticks of a dozen or so, the wedg- When cones of either type are nested ing action of the cones, ,due to jar 'given to the package, ofttimes splits the comes, rendering them unfit for sale, and the losses in this way sometimes reach large figures. In addition to the splitting of the cones by this wedging action, other objections are also encountered, One of the 'principal being that the wedged cones stick so tight that they adhere toge her so that it is practically impossible to separate them. l

In the drawings,- n

Figure 1 is an elevation of a cone embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a central Vertical section.

The cone is of the usual pastry material and, in its preferred form shown, consists of a slender conical handle such as 10 integral with-a bowl-like portion 11 having a rectangular strengthening ring 12 between the two portions to add to the beauty of the article as well as to increase the Strength at what would Otherwi be the weakest portion of the cone. T e round rings or annular ribs 14: on the handle are partly for ornament and partly to render more convenient the holding of the cone in the hand.

The top or margin of the bowl 11 is finished with an annular head 16 of the usual 7, 1923. Serial No. 661,42o.

,type and size, and integral with this bead and extendlng downward a part of the distance fro-m the head to the ring 12 is a pluraht-y of vertically disposed ribs 17, the Outer surfaces of which are pre'ferably either plane or ourved to the surface of a cylinder whose diameter is that of the outs de diameter of the head. The function of these' ribs which, while preferably three. in number, may be two, four or more, as deslred, IS to support a nested cone on the bead of the cone below it, and for this purpose, the length Or Vertical height of the rib is such that the diameter of the rounded point 18 will be held slightly out of contact with the lnner Wall 19 of the handla 10 of the ad3acent cone. In other Words, the length Or height of the rib 1? is made 'slightl gTeater than the distance from tip. to t1p of nested cone's eXact-ly similar to those shown, but n which the ribs 17 are omitted. By making 'the ribs of this size, the only points of contact between nested cones will be between the bottoms of the ribs and the head of the next cone of the nest or stick.

What I claim is:

1. An ice cream cone having on the outer surface of the cone near the top. a plurality of Vertical ribs to revent too' snug nesting of telescoped oones, v

2. An ice cream cone s'urface of the cone near of equispaced Vertical ribs so as to support a nested cone upon the rim of the cone ,above it, 4

3. An ice cream cone having a slender hollow handle and a bowl-shaped body, a margmal bead on saidbowl, and a pluralty of vertlcally disposed ribs extending from the head partly down e bowl.

4. An ice (zream cone having a slender hollow handle and a bowl-shaped body, a

having on the outer the top a plurality tical ribs extending downward from said bead and forming the sole support of each 6 handles cone of a nested series, upon the cone below bead and fo'ming the sole support of ech v it, the three ribs of each upper cone resting cone of a nested series, upon the cone upon the bead of the next lower cone to low it, the three ribs of each upper cone rest* r minimize contact of the walls of adjacent ing uponthe bead of the next lower cone to v ,minimize contact of the walls of adjacent 6. A torch-shped ice cream cone consisthandles, the length of said ribs being slighting of a. joined bowl and slender h'ollow y greater than the space between nested vconical handle, an annular ring at the junccones of sunllar shape but WlthOllt spaclng tion of said bowl and handle, a. head at the i s. h rim of said bowl and three equi aced veri 'tical ribs extending downwerd om said DAVID GERBER, 

